ssmiller47 Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Hello, I am migrating from Retrospect 6.1 to 8.1. I did a test restore to an external Firewire 800 drive. I am unable to boot from the restored disc. The process hangs up at the grey screen displaying the Apple logo. I am running Restropect on a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac using OS 10.5.8. I have tried to do the restore multiple times on different external drives with the same result. The version of I am using is Restrospect is 8.1.626. I have been using Restropect for about 15 years and never had trouble before with restoration. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 I did a test restore to an external Firewire 800 drive. I am unable to boot from the restored disc. You'll have to provide significantly more information then this. How have you configured Retrospect? How was the backup performed? What Type of Media Set? What devices are being used? Etc etc etc Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmiller47 Posted April 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 I am using a script to do a full backup of the the local boot disk (on which Retrospect is running). There are no incrementals. The media set is a file media set on an external USB2 drive. The restore is to a external Firewire 800 drive attached directly to the iMac on which Retrospect is running. I am using the restore assistant to restore the entire source volume to the external disc. Is there anything specific that I am missing that could govern the bootability of the restored volume on the external disc? Thanks, Stephan Miller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 How is the external drive partitioned? GUID (which should work) or MBR (which may not?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmiller47 Posted April 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 It is APM. Could that be a problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 From Disk Utility (paraphrasing): GUID -- for starting up an Intel Mac APM -- for starting up an PowerPC mac MBR -- for starting up a DOS and Windows machine. GUID formats, though, seem to boot PowerPC macs, but APM will not boot an Intel Mac (if I remember this correctly...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baweeks Posted April 22, 2010 Report Share Posted April 22, 2010 Dear SMaser: -You've got it almost. APM will boot an Intel Mac, but there are limitations like unable to rename the boot drive, and others I have forgotten. The installer DVD from Apple (at least in the late Tiger days when Intel Macs came to being) were actually APM, to install the Intel binary of 10.4.laterversions. -I don't know if the more-newly-released Intel Macs can still boot from APM, but at least the original Intel Macs could. -baweeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmiller47 Posted April 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I realized last night that when I clone the boot drive onto the external (APM) drive using Carbon Copy Cloner instead of restoring from a Retrospect Media Set, the clone boots fine. I also did the experiment of remapping the external drive using GUID and then doing the restore onto that drive. It still will not boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 - Are you using any "Rules" for the backup? - Does the destination volume show as a valid boot disk in the Startup Disk preference pane? - Have you confirmed that "Ignore Ownership" is not checked in the destination external volume (I is generally enabled by Disk Utility by default for external volumes)? - Have you tried holding the Shift key when attempting to boot from the external? - Have you tried Repair Permissions or Check Disk in Disk Utility while booted from the internal drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssmiller47 Posted April 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 [color:red]- Are you using any "Rules" for the backup?[/color] Yes, I use the back up all files rule. [color:red]- Does the destination volume show as a valid boot disk in the Startup Disk preference pane?[/color] Yes the restored disk shows as bootable. [color:red]- Have you confirmed that "Ignore Ownership" is not checked in the destination external volume (I is generally enabled by Disk Utility by default for external volumes)?[/color] Yes, it is unchecked. [color:red]- Have you tried holding the Shift key when attempting to boot from the external?[/color] I have not tried this. [color:red]- Have you tried Repair Permissions or Check Disk in Disk Utility while booted from the internal drive?[/color] Yes I have repaired the permissions on the restored external drive while booted from the internal boot drive. I might add that I have tried to boot in verbose mode to determine where the hang up is. It appears as though this causes it to hang even earlier in the boot process and it doesn't get to the terminal screen. Thanks for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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